May 2017
Editorial
Barker, Martin. Editorial introduction
Articles
Alvarez, Mike. Online spectatorship of death and dying: Pleasure, purpose and community in BestGore.com
Balogh, Eva. Stars in the Aisles: Cinema usherettes, identity and ideology
Miller, Lucy. Access and the construction of fan identity: Industry images of anime fandom
Reinhard, Carrie Lynn D. & Pooky Amsterdam. A Community of Televised Avatars: Interactivities in virtual world television promoting and acknowledging participatory communities
Turner, Simon. District Thailand: Identification, spectatorship, and The Hunger Games in Thailand
Vainikka, Eliisa, Elina Noppari & Janne Seppänen. Exploring tactics of public intimacy on Instagram
Van de Vijver, Lies. The cinema is dead, long live the cinema! Understanding the social experience of cinema-going today
Völcker, Matthias. “Spoiler!? I’m completely painless, I read everything”: Fans and spoilers – results of a mixed method study
Waysdorf, Abby & Stijn Reijnders. The role of imagination in the film tourist experience: The case of Game of Thrones
Themed Section 1: Censorship and Audiences
Zenor, Jason & Clarissa Smith. Introduction: Perceptions of censorship
Barker, Martin. The censor as audience: James Ferman at the British Board of Film Classification
McLelland, Mark. Governmentality and fan resistance in the Japan pop culture sphere
Treveri Gennari, Daniela & Silvia Dibeltulo. “It existed indeed … it was all over the papers”: memories of film censorship in 1950s Italy
Vörös, Florian. Performing the unaffected audience: “Mature and responsible” men accounting for their pornographic fantasies
Close, Samantha. Moon Prism Power! Censorship as adaptation in the case of Sailor Moon
Themed Section 2: Knowledge Exchange
Pitts, Stephanie. Introduction: Themed section on Knowledge Exchange and Public Engagement
Hield, Fay & Sarah Price. “Old Adam was the first man formed”: (In)forming and investigating listeners’ experiences of new music as audience enrichment, public engagement and research
Dunford, Mark. Understanding voice, distribution and listening in Digital Storytelling
Ryall, Amy, Jane Hodson & Casey Strine. Everybody Knows: Engaged research and the changing role of the academic
Packman, Claire, Louise Rutt & Grace Williams. The value of experts, the importance of partners, and the worth of the people in between
Reviews
Aker, Laurena (ed.). Fan Phenomena: The Twilight Saga (reviewed by Evan Hayles Gledhill)
Finn, Kavita Mudan (ed.). Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones. Fathallah, Judith May. Fanfiction and the Author. Gierzynski, Anthony with Kathryn Eddy. Harry Potter and the Millennials (reviewed by Martin Barker)
Henry Jenkins, Mizuko Ito & Danah Boyd. Participatory Culture in a Networked Era (reviewed by Ryan Taylor)